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Come join our Rocky Mountain Field Botany Certificate Course.
Space is limited, be sure to sign up early!
Start Date: May 17, 2019
Overview
The Rocky Mountain Field Botany course is designed to provide a thorough introduction to field botany, positive plant identification, wild-crafting ethics, and sustainable harvesting and preservation techniques for the beginning to intermediate student. The main focus is on hands-on experience, along with a variety of lecture formats and labs. This year we will have an additional...

By Samantha Grant, CH
What comes to mind when we think of
the heart? It is typical to think of the chambered organ that resides in our
chest and pumps our blood. Our heart is instrumental in providing our bodies
with blood, carrying vital nutrients to nourish all of our body systems. But,
what about the Life force carried by our emotional heart? In Unani medicine, the ancient Greek
tradition, as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Heart is recognized as an...

Did you know that your body is an
instrument that is always offering you the opportunity to reside more closely
to your own soul? Your physical body is an access point, an instrument, a
compass that can be tuned to send and receive messages from the great beyond.
By learning how to drop in to the realm of pure present embodiment you can
access Divine consciousness, Divine power and Divine creativity. By combining
guided meditations with the vitality and medicine of some very common herbs,
you can learn to bring your ‘human experience’...

Vitalist Sleep Support Class at CSCH with Courtney Huges, CH. Tuesday, Jan. 22, 6-8 pm
Sleep is an important part of a person’s
overall health. Yet it is often something we put aside in an effort to be more
productive. Sleep debt (cumulative lack of sleep) contributes to many different
common diseases. Lack of sleep can result in an increased
risk and severity of long-term diseases or conditions, such as high blood
pressure and heart disease.
The effects of poor sleep are...

Winter Wellness Class at CSCH with Amber Wood Jan. 15
As the
weather becomes cooler and the days become shorter, the world turns inward—and
so should we. Taking time to slow down and pay attention to our bodies is
essential for wellness throughout the winter months. Winter is also a season
when we tend to overextend ourselves during the holidays and with family. It is
important for us to take care of ourselves and try to maintain a balance of
health during this time.
A healthy
immune system is...

By Hannah Michaels, CH
From picking Dandelions to spending time in the garden with our grandmother, many of us share similar experiences that led us to the plant path. It is now our time to pass this along to the next generation. Raising an herbalist is about engaging your children in herbalism and weaving plant medicine into their lives. There are numerous ways to initiate, support, and help guide their own journeys to becoming an herbalist.
Because of modern day distractions, we sometimes lose the connection we had with nature as children....

By Lisa Ganora, CSCH Director
Just as traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda have systems of energetics, Western herbalism was originally based on a recognition of the energies and balance of elements, humors, and constitution (temperament) in both herbs and people. Today we use an evolution of this system as the basis for Vitalist herbalism and nutrition.
As far as we know, the ancient Egyptians were among the first to record the idea of what we might today call the Four Elements: Fire, Air, Water, Earth. Egyptian knowledge passed on to...

Anger is believed to be both a positive and a negative emotion, having the ability to right wrongs, motivate people and bring more justice into the world. However, anger also has a downside. This downside brings with it some pretty significant health risks - physical, mental and psychological.

In the early 16th century, it is believed that Spanish and Portuguese explorers brought tomato, cayenne and the potato back from the Americas or the ‘Indies’, as they were called, to Europe. The aristocracy immediately turned their noses up at the new foods. It would be another 200 years before nightshades would be adopted into the mainstream diet. The Cayenne pepper was even called the ‘poor man’s pepper’ in Italy. In France, the tomato was grown for ornamental purposes and was called the ‘love apple’. The potato was considered...

How does one properly articulate the role of “The Mystic”? Rudolph Steiner came close to capturing the essence of this timeless, mysterious archetype when he wrote: “The mystic, then, is one who seeks for truth and the Divine directly within himself, by a gradual detachment and a veritable birth of his higher soul. If he attains it after prolonged effort, he plunges into his own glowing centre. Then he immerses himself, and identifies himself with that ocean of life which is the primordial force.”[1] Plants have long been inseparable...